Adults don't get nearly the attention and support the kids do, maybe because they're not as cute or because people forget that autism is lifelong. But it is.

Autism is defined by looking at behaviors. And everybody looks at behaviors differently.

Social interactions can be enormously challenging for people on the spectrum. That's part of the reason that unemployment among autistic adults hovers near 80 percent.

Over the years, autism has almost been a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder, which allows for all kinds of arguments and dissension and theories and competing therapies to come into play.

There lives a weeperin each of us-a silent mourner honoring our despairwhen our willingness slain by helplessness continues to resurrect to be slaughtered again

What is lived is what is valued.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging.

Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.

I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

Exercise is the beste intrument in learnyng.

Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.